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GARC’s October Featured Platform User: Amici Cannis, Ecuador
We are excited to introduce you to this month’s Featured Platform User, Amici Cannis in Ecuador. Amici Cannis is also our first Rabies Center of Excellence in South America. Their mission is to protect and improve the lives of animals in Cotacachi and surrounding indigenous villages. Their team provides high-quality veterinary services to stray dogs and cats, companion animals with owners, and those who cannot afford treatment.
Champions in Action: Wadzanayi, Zimbabwe
For October’s edition, we are proud to introduce you to Wadzanayi from Zimbabwe. She is doing her best to help eliminate rabies and improve dog welfare in Zimbabwe. We asked about how her own rabies journey started and some of the biggest challenges she faces working within her community.
PRESS RELEASE: World Rabies Day 2025: GARC, Rabies Alliance, and Battersea Call on Global Communities to Unite Behind the "Communities Against Rabies" Initiative
London, September 28, 2025 – In recognition of the World Rabies Day 2025 theme of Act Now: You, Me, Community, GARC, Rabies Alliance, and leading animal welfare charity Battersea, are calling on global communities to eliminate rabies through coordinated, community-driven action.
PRESS RELEASE: Partnering for a Rabies-Free Future: Integrating Rabies Control into National Health Priorities
28th September 2025, Geneva: In line with this year’s World Rabies Day theme, “Act Now: You, Me, Community”, GARC and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), are calling for shared responsibility, strong advocacy, and inclusive planning to ensure that voices from all levels, national to community, shape countries’ rabies control priorities. With rabies being a serious public health problem in more than 150 countries, mainly in Asia and Africa, causing tens of thousands of deaths each year, communities are making meaningful progress aimed at prevention.
September’s Excellence in Action: Peedu’s People
In August 2024, GARC recognized its first Rabies Center of Excellence (RCE). As part of our Communities Against Rabies initiative, we want to showcase the incredible work that they do. For this month’s Excellence in Action, we are proud to share the work of Peedu’s People, Punjab, India.
GARC’s September Featured Platform User: Bali Paws, Indonesia
The theme for World Rabies Day this September is Act Now: You, Me, Community. To show how a community can come together to work towards rabies elimination, this month’s featured GARC Data Platform user is Bali Paws in Indonesia. Bali Paws is an Indonesian volunteer-run animal welfare organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming stray and abandoned animals. They focus mainly on dogs and cats. The organization aims to provide
New GARC, new Champions in Action
At the end of August, we shared some exciting changes with you. As part of the new GARC, we are also excited to share our Champions in Action (previously, Kerenza Chats with Champions) feature with you. In this celebration of dedication and resilience, we are proud to introduce you to Nada from Egypt.
Exciting Changes at GARC
GARC has a renewed drive to inspire, motivate and energize the world to stand with us as we realize our vision of a world free from dog rabies. To celebrate this chapter of renewed commitment, we want to share some really exciting changes at GARC!
New GARC Leadership
Dr Andre Coetzer, previously GARC’s Technical Director, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GARC.